dis-jicio

dīs-ĭcĭo (or dissĭcio, Lucr. 3, 639; less correctly, dis-jĭcio), jēci, jectum, 3, v. a. [jacio], to throw asunder; to drive asunder; to scatter, disperse (freq. in poets and historians, esp. since the Aug. per.; not in Cic., Plaut., or Ter.).

In gen.:

partibus disjectis disque supatis,

Lucr. 1, 651; cf. id. 1, 1020:

materies,

id. 2, 939:

vis animaï (with dispertita and discissa),

id. 3, 639:

equi,

id. 5, 400:

in vasta urbe lateque omnibus disjectis moenibus,

i. e. distributed, stretching out in various directions, Liv. 24, 2; cf. id. 24, 33 fin.:

disjecta nube,

Plin. 2, 49, 50, § 134:

nubes,

Ov. M. 10, 179:

nubila,

id. ib. 1, 328:

membra,

id. ib. 3, 724; cf.:

corpora ponto (with age diversos),

Verg. A. 1, 70:

rates,

id. ib. 1, 43; cf.:

naves passim,

Liv. 30, 24:

naves in aperta Oceani,

Tac. A. 2, 23 et saep.:

frontem mediam mentumque securi,

Verg. A. 12, 308; cf.: scyphus in duas partes disjectus, Varr. ap. Gell. 3, 14, 3:

crinem disjecta Venus,

with dishevelled hair, Sil. 5, 203;

of money,

to squander, Val. Max. 3, 5, 2.—

In partic.

Milit. t. t., to disperse, scatter, rout the enemy:

ea (phalange) disjecta,

Caes. B. G. 1, 25, 2; Liv. 44, 41; Pompeius ap. Cic. Att. 8, 12 B.: Sall. C. 61, 3; id. J. 50, 6; Nep. Milt. 2 al.:

hostium disjecta frangere,

the scattered enemy, Amm. 29, 4.—

Pregn., to dash to pieces, lay in ruins, destroy; to frustrate, thwart, bring to naught.

Lit.:

arcem a fundamentis,

Nep. Timol. 3, 3:

moenia urbium,

id. ib. § 2; Ov. M. 12, 109:

statuas,

Suet. Caes. 75:

sepulchra,

id. ib. 81 al.:

globum consensionis,

to dissolve, Nep. Att. 8, 4:

pecuniam,

i. e. to squander, Val. Max. 3, 5, 2; cf. absol.: dide, disice, per me licet, Caecil. ap. Cic. Cael. 16, 37.—

Trop. (i. q. discutere, II. B. 2.):

dissice compositam pacem,

Verg. A. 7, 339; so,

pacem,

Sil. 2, 295:

rem,

Liv. 2, 35:

consilia ducis,

id. 25, 14:

cogitationem regiam,

Vell. 1, 10:

exspectationem novarum tabularum,

Suet. Caes. 42.